In the words that are spoken every year at Passover, last night was different from all other nights. By the usual measures, Donald Trump is the least qualified candidate to ever win a presidential election: he has no experience in government, no record of military service, and no demonstrable policy know-how. But then, this election had a lot of firsts, unprecedented at almost every level. Let us count the ways:

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The Trump Platform is Still Largely a Mystery.

As New York Times political reporter Alexander Burns points out, "Never has such an untested and unlikely candidate captured the presidency, and no one in modern times has entered the office with his plans for governing so uncertain." It's easy to forget that Trump really didn't lay out any substantive policy plans during his more-than-year-long presidential run.

He Remade the Electoral Map

That lack of specificity didn't seem to faze his supporters, though—mostly white, working-class—who defied the polls that had Clinton winning handily. What pundits like to call the "Blue Wall," the Democratic stronghold in midwestern states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, also came tumbling down.

He took the media by surprise.

Perhaps the oddest thing about Trump's run was how little effect the media's documentation of his scrofulous past had on his image. As Jack Shafer of Politico wrote the weekend before the election, Trump neutered the press with his talk of bias and a bellicose Twitter account with millions of followers (taken away from him a few days before the election, though perhaps back in his hands now), rendering their reported attacks against him virtually useless. "As a result of Trump's attack-the-messenger strategy," Shafer wrote, "for perhaps the first time in U.S. history no mainstream outlet has any influence over the voters backing one of the presidential nominees." Will that change as Trump moves into a more "presidential" role? We'll see.

He didn't mention God in his Victory speech.

We do know, though, that Trump is the first president-elect in three decades to end his victory speech without blessing America, accordingto this Quartz analysis by Marta Cooper—yet another way in which Trump seems unfamiliar with the norms of American political tradition.

He is the oldest person elected president.

Hillary Clinton, as we know, was the first woman to win a major party nomination—and won more votes overall than Donald Trump, making her the fifth presidential candidate to win the popular vote but still lose the election.

But you may not have known that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were also the oldest major party nominees to run for president in the history of the United States, which means that, at 70 years old, Trump is the oldest person ever to be elected to the Oval Office. If he wins a second term, he will be nearly 80 years old when he steps down (assuming he steps down, that is). But before we contemplate two consecutive terms of Trump, let's just try to get through the day.

As a Twice Divorced Candidate, His Personal History Is Unprecedented As Well.

From a statistical standpoint, Donald Trump will be the first president to have had more than one divorce. (He's had two.) Ronald Reagan was the first and only other president to have taken office with a divorce under his belt—though just one, from the actress Jane Wyman—and his status as a celebrity candidate may have set the stage for Trump's ascension.

Melania Trump is Just the Second First Lady to Be Born Abroad.

Melania Trump was born in Slovenia in 1970 (and, as the AP reported last week, worked illegally in the US as a model before obtaining a work visa in October 1996, which may cause her some trouble as the spotlight shifts exclusively to her and Donald.) The only other First Lady to have been born in a foreign country was Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, who was born in London in 1775 and married to John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States.

Donald Trump Has At Least One Thing in Common with Abraham Lincoln.

At 6-foot-3, Trump will be one of the tallest presidents to enter the White House, though his height can't beat Lincoln's, who at 6-foot-4 was the tallest president ever.

There will no doubt be many other firsts to add to this list in the coming years. As Hillary Clinton put it so gracefully in her concession speech, "Donald Trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead. "